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AS IN HEAVEN
DU SOM ER I HIMLEN

• Director: Tea Lindeburg
• DENMARK / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 86’ / Danish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Tea Lindeburg
• Original Work: "“A Night of Death”, Marie Bregendahl
• Director of Photography: Marcel Zyskind
• Editing: Åsa Mossberg
• Music: Kristian Leth
• Cast: Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, Ida Cæcilie Rasmussen, Palma Lindeburg Leth, Anna-Olivia Øster Coakley, Flora Augusta, Kirsten Olesen
• Producer: Lise Orheim Stender, Jesper Morthorst
• Production Co.: Motor
• World Sales: LevelK
• Source: Danish Film Institute

2022 Göteborg Best Nordic Film
2021 San Sebastian Best Director, Best Performance (Flora Ofelia Hoffmann Lindahl)

Told over 24 hours and set in a farm house, As in Heaven is a story about one night at the end of the 1800s that changes 14-year-old Lise’s life forever. Lise is the eldest of eight siblings. She is in love, she is the first in her family to go to school, and she is full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the birth intensifies, Lise must prepare herself – a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house. The film is a story about the lot of women, about becoming an adult, about losing faith but trying to hold onto the most important thing of all: hope. Inspired by a 1912 novel by Marie Bregendahl, As in Heaven is the debut feature of Danish director Tea Lindeburg, the creator of the series Equinox (2020).

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.